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James McQuivey | Publishing executives whose companies together earn 74% of all U.S. trade publishing revenues were bullish about book publishing's future. As we closed out 2011, 82% of publishing executives we surveyed were optimistic about the digital transition.

Jeremy Greenfield | NBCUniversal is launching a book publishing arm to capitalize on growth in e-reader and tablet adoption, the decreasing cost of e-book production and a backlog of over one million hours of video content.

Jeremy Greenfield | On January 27, 2010, Steve Jobs changed the course of consumer technology yet again when he announced the first iPad. While Silicon Valley gushed, another group was buzzing all the way across the country at the Sheraton Hotel in New York. The stage is set for a repeat.

Jeremy Greenfield | Due to strong borrowing by Kindle Prime subscribers in December, Amazon has increased its monthly bonus pool for KDP Select authors in the Kindle Owners' Lending Library to $700,000 from $500,000.

Jeremy Greenfield | As the debate as to why publishers are relevant rages, Hachette Book Group, one of the world's largest publishers, responds. A document leaked exclusively to Digital Book World by Hachette begins "'Self-publishing' is a misnomer."

Jeremy Greenfield | Outside of Oprah, The New Yorker and the Dallas Cowboys, few brands in the marketplace today command the level of loyalty from their customers that Godin said will be necessary for book publishers to have to sell their wares. So what should book publishers do?

Jeremy Greenfield | Reading to children with an iPad before bed is bad for them, right? Despite breathless claims by the news media that this might be so, it has yet to be seriously studied -- and the book industry could only benefit from such study, no matter what the outcome.